Abstract

Campus Rebels Find a Cause

A few weeks ago, Frederick L. Moore, Jr., a University of California freshman, went on a hunger strike to protest against compulsory ROTC on the campus. His stand was supported by a petition signed by more than a thousand fellow students. On October 30, a student-conducted poll at a sister university, the University of California at Los Angeles, revealed a similar tremendous opposition to compulsory ROTC. 70 per cent of 1,189 students polled demanded that it be abolished. Similar protests are lancing through many of the campuses in the U.S. There is in no sense a mass movement; the normal student is solidly unconcerned with the awakening few. But campus intellectuals are involved, and natural student activists, desperate in the opinion vacuums of today's campuses, are looking to the anti-war movement as the only thing "going on.